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Unions In Czecho-Slovakia (Continued from page 5.) the Union of Chemical Workers, which subsequently became the: or- ganizational center of the revolution- ary labor movement. Even before its expulsion from the General Federa- tion of Labor, this union had grouped around itself the various minorities expelled by the reformists, and or- ganized them into sections. Thus was laid the beginning of the future One Big Union. It is hardly necessary to mention that most of the trade union- ists remained with the reformists, so that the young revolutionary labor mevement was very short of both agi- tational and material resources. This situation, which demanded the greatest economy and efficiency, was also largely instrumental in the adop- tion of the organizational form of the One Big Union, whose financial and other advantages dre beyond any doubt. The October (1922) congress of the revolutionary minorities ex- pelled by the reformists, therefore, approved by a considerable majority (only the above mentioned revolution- ary unions being in opposition) the adoption of the One Big Union with 17 industrial sections, as the new form of organization. “The independent unions were given a years’ time to call congresses for the purpose of deciding the question of their affiliation in the form of sec- tions to the One Big Union. During 1923 the unions of land-workers, leath- er and shoe workers, clerical work- ers and miners affiiliated, so that the O. B. U. has, at present, 300,000 mem- bers distributed among eleven indus- trial sections while the four independ- ent unions have a membership not ex- ceeding 60,000. Structure, Organizationally, the O. B. U. is built on the principle of “One enter- prise, one union;” this principle, however, is not always applied, ow- ing to the scatteredness of the move- ment so that it will be more correct to consider the local organization as the basic organizational nucleus of the O. B. U. The local organizations are united by joint district councils with a presidium of 12, elected at dis- trict conferences to which every 100 members of the union send one dele- gate, The secretary of the district council is appointed by the presidium of the O. B. U. by agreement with the district council and is usually selected from among the workers ‘of the larg- est industry of the district. In the vertical direction, the section confer- ences elect.a presidium of the section consisting of nine members, The work of the section presidium con- sists largely of directing the econom- ic struggle, negotiating collective agreements and carrying on propa- ganda and agitation in coordination with the presidium of the O. B. U. General congresses as well as sec- tion conferences, are held once in three years. At these meetings one delegate represents two thousand good standing members. The con- gress elects the presidium of the O. B. U., each section being entitled to pro- portional representation in the presid- ium, Financial Arrangement, The central place of the organiza- tional schemes of the O, B. U., belongs to the financial question. But mem- bership dues collected by the local organizations go directly to the cen- tral treasury of the O. B. U., where the entire accountancy and allocation of the funds is centered. The pre- sidium of the section, which has in this central treasury its current ac- count, recording all the deposits and expenditures of the section, receives from the central treasury all the funds PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK DENTIST Rendering Pong fe vag Service 20 Y 645 SMITHFIELD st. a Near 7th Ave. 1627 CENTER AVE., Cor. Arthur St. Res. 1632 S. 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Every new subscriber increases the influence of the DAILY WORKER, necessary for its activities. This financial structure has the ad- vantages of freeing the separate sec- tions from all cares of a financial character, and in case of great strin- gency, as for instance, in case of long strikes which exhaust the funds of the section, the latter is enabled to bor. row from the general treasury. Equally centralized is the work of agitation. and propaganda. All agi- tators and lecturers are paid by the eentral treasury of the O. B, U. and their engagement by the various sec- tions is regulated by the O. B, U. presidium. The union press has also been decentralized, and the O. B. U. is publishing” a@ general organ with sectional supplements. The most serious criticism levelled against the O. B. U. and its leaders by their opponents, consists of the claim that the organizational centralism of the O. B. U. prevents the separate sec- tions from showing sufficient initia- tive, and deprives them of the meas- ure of independence necessary in Cze- cho-Slovakia, considering the general development of the labor movement. Craft Spirit Still Strong. Inasmuch as the craft spirit is still deeply rooted in‘the Czecho-Slovakian labor movement, and the principle of industrial unionism is still far frort realization, _ the application of che strictly centralized form of the O. B, U. must be considered premature. This was approximately the stand tak- en by the second congress. of the R. I. L. U. in its attitude towards the One Big. Union of Czecho-Slovakia, the congress, howoever, decided to let the Czecho-Slovakian comrades become convinced in practice of the justice of its doubts. We are convinced that with the fur- ther growth and consolidation of the One Big Union of Czecho-Slovakia, it will, modify its organizational forms o as to satisfy both sides. At pres- ent the Presidium of the One Big Jnion of Czecho-Slovakia, together with representatives of the inde- pendent revolutionary unions men- tioned above, are the provisional rep- resentatives of the Red International of labor unions in Czecho-Slovakia. This state of affairs cannot, however, be considered permanent. The next congress of the Czecho-Slovakian rev- olutionary unions will have to tackle this question and find the final forms for the settlement of the organization- al question in Czecho-Slovakia. e Ep ies bu g It ain’t as easy as can be, a-making citizens to see that we should have a reign of peace and make all war and ‘| strife to cease. Now in Chicago they is seating a otta women in a meeting; to teach the ways of peace on earth and act as midwife at the birth of that forth- coming glorious day when pacifists will have their way. The child with- out a bit of pain, shall spring in peace from out the brain, of folks who have a kindly heart, without disturbing the world’s mart. 2 But men who live to buy and sell have very diffegrpt tales to tell. At the same time-these women met, a navy man told t get a fleet of air- craft for the sky#<as we could fight lots by and by. “And business men who filled the hall let out a most unanimous call, to get behind the alr- mene guy till on the tip-top cloud we y: And Legion men, who otta know, some lies were told to make ’em go (to France to save democracy), now A Penetrating Analysis! General Secretary of the Red 1113 Washington Blvd. Work place Burning Criticism! : THE NEW AND SIGNIFICANT BOOK ENTITLED The World’s Trade Union Movement By A. 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